The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Restriction Enzyme Cleavage
A great step by step site for how DNA is prepared and plated in the process of electrophoresis.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: The Challenge of Flight
Think about the challenges that faced the Wright Brothers, then see if you can design and fly your own model aircraft. There are other sources provided to help you along the way.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Franklin White
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Franklin White is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with landscape photography which he collect in "viewbooks."
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Resources and lesson plans concerning the thousands of letters Mrs. Roosevelt received from young people asking for help during the Depression. Students learn how to use primary source documents.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Wpa: Antidote to the Great Depression?
[Free Registration/Login Required] A good assessment of the Works Progress Administration and its contribution not only of providing jobs for the unemployed during the Great Depression, but for the lasting improvements it made in the...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Women and the Great Depression
[Free Registration/Login Required] A very interesting essay showing how the Great Depression affected women as housewives and as employees. See how many New Deal programs discriminated against women, and find out who supported women's...
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Employment and Training Institute: Wpa Milwaukee Handicraft Project
Article on a WPA program in Milwaukee which provided work for unskilled women laborers. Great resource for students of all ages.
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The on Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
This comprehensive site defines what a loyalist is, as well as detailing the role loyalists played in the American Revolution with chronologies, maps, and more.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Franklin Pierce
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Franklin Pierce.
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A View on Cities: Philadelphia: Statue of Benjamin Franklin
Statue of Benjamin Franklin at the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia)
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Franklin D. Roosevelt
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Foreign Policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Describes Roosevelt's policies towards Pan-America, involvement in the global conflict, and entry into World War II. Included are sample lessons and a bibliography. (Published in 1978)
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Working Wing
This lesson plan provides a brief demonstration of how airplane wings lift a heavy airplane into the air. This activity would be an excellent example of how science and technology have positively impacted our lives. Prediction and...
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: The Pulley
This site provides an easy to understand experiment that will demonstrate the pulley to students in grades K-3. It requires only everyday materials. The students are encouraged to discover some of these concepts for themselves and apply...
The Franklin Institute
[Archived Content] the Franklin Institute: The Screw Demonstration
This is an activity demonstrating that the screw is an inlined plane.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Powering the Past: Emergence of Electrical Utilities in America
Looks at the history of electrical utilities in the United States from the time of Edison up to President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Franklin Institute
Marie Curie
Read the history of Marie Curie and her work with radium. Use the tabs above to read more about this scientist, her research, and her rewards.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The First New Deal
Overview summarizing the domestic policies instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his plan of economic recovery in the First New Deal.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Second New Deal
Overview of the host of economic and social measures instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second New Deal.
US National Archives
National Archives and Records Administration: Founders Online
This site provides the texts of nearly 200,000 historical documents related to six Founding Fathers, including the papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. The...
The Franklin Institute
Resources for Science Learning: The Human Brain
Everything you wanted to know about keeping your brain healthy. How should you nourish your brain, how should your brain be protected, and even how to "renew" or stimulate your brain.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: John Franklin (1786 1847)
A portrait of John Franklin from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: John Franklin (1786 1847)
A portrait of John Franklin from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790)
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.